Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1915 — Agitation For Hospital For Monticello and Vicinity. [ARTICLE]

Agitation For Hospital For Monticello and Vicinity.

Rensselaer has started the hospital bug now and it is very likely that a number of other nearby counties will soon be raising funds for county hospitals. The Monticello Journal has already begun to talk of it in their paper, and states that Rendselaer is already on the road to a hospital and that Monticello should do the same. The "same reasons for a hospital in Rensselaer and Monticello prevail everywhere. A large number of people are taken to Chicago and Indianapolis for treatment where the expense is an unusually heavy burden on many of those who are forced to go to these places or send members of their family. In a local hospital the patients could be taken care of much cheaper than in a city hospital and with more promptness. Local hospitals are a benefit to the physicians as well as the residents and it is these men Who are willing to push the proposition and give their combined support